Quotes About Success

I read somewhere that people who make lists are more likely to achieve their ambitions.

It's a big accomplishment to be among those big names on those all-time lists of great players who played for the Magic.

I literally was famous before I knew my own name.

It's never really easy to be successful as a writer when you're trying to write literary fiction. You've already limited your readership limited by that choice.

In a fit of pique, I said to my agent, 'I'm going to write something you can sell.' The idea was to write a straight page-turner, with no literary conceits.

I always say, and I mean it, that the great break of my literary career was when I went to law school.

I've always wanted to write, but coming from a small-town background - I was born and brought up in Ludhiana - you think you're not the kind of literary person who will write books that will sell. There was always a kind of defensiveness in me.

I'm from Europe, and I was very aware that there are a lot of literature snobs - especially in Europe. As soon as something becomes a success, it has to be bad, and then they'll do everything they can to stab it to death.

Me and my little brother never grew up wanting to be famous.

I don't know a lot of people who achieve what they have really dreamed of as a little girl.

When I was a little girl growing up in Elmira, I always wanted to be a lawyer.

I always wanted to be an actor, even when I was a little kid. When I used to run away from home, I'd go to movies and sit all night watching Kirk Douglas. When I was 16, I tried getting into the Actors Studio, and they told me to get lost. I said 'I'll come back when I'm a man,' and I came back when I was 30.

I know the NBA is my all-time goal. It's what I dreamed of as a little kid.

Some kids are good at sports, some are good at school work. I just always loved business, from the time I was a little kid. It was always something that I really enjoyed.

Writers of literature make very little money.

Every little thing I've done so far has been a dream of mine, and I've been able to accomplish it. It's still a dream every day.

We desire to win, doing the little things right.

You've just got to have to put the work in. Put work first. Put the hours in and the time in, and do your job. And when you get a little time off, you can go out and have a little fun. But you have to make sure you get done what you need to get done first off.

To have a second movie that you're proud of and that actually turned out the way you wanted, shot by shot, I realize I'm probably going to be able to do this for a little while for my living.

I wanted to take some time before I launch my men's line so it took a little while before I launched it.

There are three things we need to do for a band. We need to make a great record; we need to get the record played; and we need to find an audience for the live shows.

Playing for relegation and livelihoods and people's jobs - that's pressure. Being at the top of the table, we should be enjoying it.

When I was a child, that really was in my mind, to play for a great club like Liverpool.

At Liverpool, winning is customary.